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חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ציונים-#.m4a” /]צִיֻּנִים Americans call them grades, but elsewhere in the English-speaking world they’re called marks. The Hebrew word for these indications that cause joys and woes, can make or break, is ציונים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ציונים-#.m4a” /] – while one grade or mark is ציון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ציונים-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ציונים-#.m4a” /]לא מספיק שיהיו ציונים טובים, חשוב גם אישיות. (It’s) not…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תצטרך-1.m4a” /]תִּצְטָרֵךְ… To say, I need in Hebrew, it’s either אני צריך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תצטרך-2.m4a” /] if you’re a male or אני צריכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תצטרך-3.m4a” /] if you’re a female. Technically, these words are not verbs – so they don’t move smoothly into the past and future tenses. In the past, it’s הייתי צריך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תצטרך-4.m4a” /] or…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/בחור-כארז-1.m4a” /]בָּחוּר כָּאֶרֶז The cedar tree, native to the lands of the Bible including the country known then and today as Lebanon, was venerated as beautiful, strong, majestic. It makes sense then that in the biblical poem שיר השירים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/בחור-כארז-2.m4a” /] – Song of Songs, the young woman refers to her beloved as a young man like…
צוּק When I used to take groups of American religious-Zionist teens for four-day hikes in the Israeli desert, I didn’t do it alone. Not only did I have a staff of dedicated counselors with me and the support of the organization that made our trip possible (Bnei Akiva), but we also had as backup and…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-1.m4a” /]רוֹפֵא שִׁנַּיִם Raise your hand if you like going to the dentist. I actually don’t mind. I have good tooth genes. But if you don’t like going, I get it. The way to say dentist in Hebrew is super-intuitive: רופא שיניים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-1.m4a” /] – literally, teeth doctor, where שיניים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-2.m4a” /] means teeth and רופא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-3.m4a”…